Bob Woodward on the 'Best Obtainable Version of the Truth' About Trump

[steve2470]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/bob-woodward-interview-fear.html


By the time I arrived at Bob Woodward’s townhouse in Georgetown on Friday morning, his latest book, Fear, was already in its ninth printing, with more copies sold on just the first day of its release than there are people living in the city of Washington.

Through the perspective of his sources, Woodward paints a choppy portrait of the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. You may have heard that it’s not going well, and Fear is here to add to that perception with some behind-the-scenes specifics. For instance, that Trump doesn’t understand how U.S. trade policy might relate to U.S. foreign policy. Or that when papers are stolen off his desk, he doesn’t notice, doesn’t even remember that they existed, for weeks. Or that he orders his tweets printed out, so that he can study in analog the metrics of their reach. Or that he called his own attorney general “mentally retarded.”

The book unfolds as a series of stories about the officials and staffers in the administration who, to prevent catastrophes both domestic and international, must expertly navigate their relationship with the president, or hatch plots to distract him or coax him away from his most destructive whims.

Trump has responded to all of this in the most predictable of ways, amplifying the book through his tantrums against Woodward. Since the first details about its contents were published last week, it’s felt as though Fear is everywhere.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Remember what his comments were about

Nixon and what was happening with Watergate. Something along the line,folks,it is even worse than what we a reporting.

Ka-Boom!

[pretzel4gore]

2. Geeb (bro of Jeb) said it all

'You're either with us or against us'
Woodward is with them
It's time to dismiss the enemy's agents, esp when they pretend they're with us.
The guy was a card carrying NSA operative when the Nixon coup was staged- was not that at least, Treason?